Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-10
THE CONVENTION CITY,
What tho Pspers Say of the Convention
That Was and the One to Come.

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Deport New Era: Fort Worth is s
convention center. The ants will hold
big state mass meeting here during the
month, and the teachers of Texas will
| hold their next annual convention here
Il Fort Worth GAZETTE.
Yes, and let the Democratic state con-
vention be held there TOO. No better or
more suitable place can be selected.
Gordon Courier: Fort Worth did g
grand thing as the hostess OF the big pro-
| hibition meeting on the G0sh.
Greenville New Era: The Fort Worth
lOCal reporter stands head when it comes
to writing up big gatherings.
Decatur Monitor: Who could help ad-
hiring Fort Worth's enterprise? At the
prohibition convention there on the 3Otn
Ult. the antis did as mucn TO make it 8
success as the prOhibs This is genuine
enterprise and shows that they pull
strongly together, regardless of 8 politi-
cal diversion. Such hospitality, and de-
v0tion to Fort Worth'S prosperity, can
only add to the lsurels she has already
Won. Get there on the 2Gth.
Arlington World: Taken as a whole,
the Fort Worth prohibition rally was the
most successfully managed Efair ever
seen in Texas. Every body was well
pleased.
Live Oak Call Fort Worth wants the
next state convention, and there is no
reason she shall not get it. She treats
her visitors like kings and makes them
feel Ike they were IT home.
Cleburne Chronicle: Fort Worth is
preparing for q grand prohibition
Il Los 81 20 ~
is intended to be the largest affair of the
anything by halves, the public may look
for en- upDeaval that Will shake North
Texas on inst occasion.
Greenville New Era: Everybody who
attended the grand prohibition rally at
Fort Worth returned home full OF en-
thuiasM for the grand cause, and loud in
their praise OF the Forts Inequalities.
Waco Examiners The pros partook of
their wedding feast st Fort Worth. The
funeral baked meats OF their party will be
dispatched by $4,000 antis on the 26th.
Live Oak Call: The prohibition picnic
ct Fort Worth was one of the gr&ndest
occasions that ever occurred in that
place. Several thousand people were in
attendance, and the people of that enter
pTisiug city were determined TO make it
one Of the grandest entertainments in the
state. The tables groaned with their
heavy lOsds of good estsbIes.
Gainesville Post: TIE delegation from
GatesVille who attended the "grand pro-
hibitiOn rally" at Fort Worth on the 30th
ultimO, were composed of Messrs. r.
Potts, John d. MOorhesd and l. T. Bggs.
They found the Fort alive with people
from nearly every city and town in the
state. Ii was estimated by those ThO
were in & position to know best, that
%, 600 visitors attended the grand dinner
on Thursday. Hotels were crowded to
overlooking, streets thrOngeG. and nearly
every one we met lhsd OF ii Jt.Gt:ssl, '"'I;ssas /
for PTOhioitCn." Speeches were made |
by some Of the Gblest men of the state. |
Fort WOrtA did her part we'll, and gil |
agreed that the energy and enterprise dis
played on that occasion Will rebound to |
the prosperity of the city for years TO
come. We have read and heard great |
deal of Fort Worth, but we can truthfully !
say that the half had not been told Pro
li0ition will undoubtedly carry in Texas
ly 10000 or &c, 900 majority.
Arlington World The universal, the
unanimous and the incontrovertlDle
7erdict IS that the Fort Worth prohibi-
ion rally was the biggest thing ever wit
lessed IL Texas. The end of the rum
ratic is at hand
Center Champion: The prohibition
at Fort Worth on June 20 wss
he largest gathering ever known in this
ountry. 1t was the grandeur of the
ause that brought together so grand
TOWd.